Jan Claeys wrote: > Ext2/ext3 suffer from fragmentation too, when available disk space gets > low enough.
Yea.... that's why the defrag package was written. > But I think a similar API could be used to mark & move bad sectors or > "lost" sectors, and that's more related to this discussion... As I said, there is no need to make such an effort because ext rarely becomes fragmented enough to worry about. The fact that the defrag package has not really been maintained in 10 years shows that there is no strong need for an offline defrag, let alone an online one. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss